This little incident happened while we were in Munnar and well, I found the incident hilarious and that’s why, here it goes, into my blog….
One morning, as usual, Mr.Bee was happily watching reels on his phone. He sat by the windows, with his feet up the Teepai, all the while looking up reels and laughing out loud.
KBee was curious. He didn’t understand why the windows had to stay open!
Mr.Bee reasoned that, since we are in Munnar and near what looked like a valley, he told KBee that forest air is good. We need fresh air and also the greenery is pleasing.
But, surprise, surprise! KBee understood only part of it.
He closed the windows shut!
He thought his father needed air, so he began blowing air onto his face!
If you or anyone, ever need fresh air, you know what you have to do? Blow some air, windows are over-rated!
Thanks KBee for the valuable lesson!
P.S:
1. I love it when my kids give me valuable material to blog about!
2. I have more cartoons coming up, but right now I am enjoying a piping hot cup of masala chai on this rainy dull cold day.
I remember the good old days of Doordarshan, where we had interesting shows, like talented people showing off their skills at magic, puppetry and ventriloquism.
Let’s go with Ventriloquism for V!
Ventriloquism is the art of speaking in such a way that the sound seems to be coming from another source. A ventriloquist creates the illusion that the doll or puppet in his hand is the one actually speaking.
Ventriloquist with his puppet
Ventriloquism means speaking through the belly! Since the voice is muffled and seems distant, this helps in fooling people that the source of the sound is not the speaker, but is farther away!
Ventriloquists have also featured in movies. Edgar Bergen, the American Ventriloquist performed on radio and acted in movies, along with his dummy, Charlie McCarthy. He was also awarded a Honorary Oscar for his creation of the character called CharlieMcCarthy. He was also inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (I know very little about the other famous ventriloquists.)
In India too, ventriloquist Ramdas Padhye, second ventriloquist popularized ventriloquism through t.v. shows. His famous puppet Bunny the Funny is part of the Lijjat Papad Ad.
Do you know that a puppet played the villain in a Marathi movie? ( I remember watching a scene or two of this movie, but since Marathi is NOT a language I know, I didn’t watch the full movie. I continued surfing the channels!)
Do you like playing with puppets and surprising people with different voices? Then, ventriloquism is for you. Go ahead and do it for fun. (And try not to scare people or creep them away!)
P.S:
The other hobbies starting with a V are Volleyball, Playing Violin, Video games, Vaulting (ornamental work on ceiling and roof), Pole Vaulting, Vacuuming (if a husband has this hobby, he will have a happy wifey!) and Videography (art of making videos, similar to ‘tik-tok’ers and ‘reel’ers!)
